Tag: aphid

Every fall, it seems as though we should be slowing down, and finishing up the summer research projects. Of course, we are doing this. But we are also busy gearing up for the big rush in fall data collection, and putting the final touches on our overwintering experiments. This fall, we have been pushing hard to finish … More A fall update… still busy!

Our group has been learning a lot about how to identify naturally-occurring enemies of plant pests (mostly aphids). As part of one of our research projects, we have been scouting very carefully, every other week, in our tomato and pepper experiments. We are learning that when we look closely, we are seeing a whole new world!! As … More Biological warfare